Windmill atop RV
Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the idea of several windmills on top of the RV to generate power to recharge batteries as you are driving? They could be raised and lowered as the situation cal...
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I can't help it...
This brings up the image of a rowboat with a sail, a fan and a long electrical cord.
Alternators are HEATERS, keep this in mind. Two to three hundred watts worth would not be unusual for a standard 100 amp alternator. They also love to be driven at more than 1,000 RPM and that's a minimum. So this means having a suitable reliable gearbox atop your rig. See those off grid windmill gizmos? They're lucky of they can get 30 amps in a near whole gale. Some of the bigger ones can but then you would need a strobe light stop it to meet FAA regulations :) The roof of your rig would have to be very very very heavily reinforced to take a seven horsepower load leveraged a yard and a half high off the roof.
I've heard some off-grid windmills that would down out the sound made by a Huey military helicopter developing war-emergency power.
The other "truism" I go by is the guy I heard quip "I carry so much extra gas I need even more gas to make up for the lost mileage".
This brings up the image of a rowboat with a sail, a fan and a long electrical cord.
Alternators are HEATERS, keep this in mind. Two to three hundred watts worth would not be unusual for a standard 100 amp alternator. They also love to be driven at more than 1,000 RPM and that's a minimum. So this means having a suitable reliable gearbox atop your rig. See those off grid windmill gizmos? They're lucky of they can get 30 amps in a near whole gale. Some of the bigger ones can but then you would need a strobe light stop it to meet FAA regulations :) The roof of your rig would have to be very very very heavily reinforced to take a seven horsepower load leveraged a yard and a half high off the roof.
I've heard some off-grid windmills that would down out the sound made by a Huey military helicopter developing war-emergency power.
The other "truism" I go by is the guy I heard quip "I carry so much extra gas I need even more gas to make up for the lost mileage".
